in one word, no. I rather liked james and the giant peach when I first saw it at age 6, I still like the animation and such now. Wow, kids nowadays must be true weaksauce, I have read most of those boks, and the adventures of huckleberry fin! what, that\'s an american classic, and of mice and men, catcher in the rye? I admit, some of those books may not be approprite for kids, like the joy of gay sex, I wouldn\'t want one of my kids reading that till they where much older than 8, but most of those are good books, and good reading at that, some more examples of good literature that are on the list: a wrinle in time, read the whole series by the time I was 9. To kill a mockingbird, read that by age 12, good literature. Lord of the Flies! I LOVE that book, then again I am weird, but it is still a good book. The adventures of tom sawyer? again, classic literature, need I say more? Kids need to read more I think, and saying classic literature is bad is not the way to go.
